
The Browser
Adding Slots
You can add new slots to a template in the slot editor. The most convenient method for adding a slot is only available for predefined slots. For these slots, you can select the slot by its name in one of the three popup menus: Specific, Methods, or Attributes. FIGURE A.29 displays the contents of these three popups.

FIGURE A.29 : Popup menus in the slot editor of the browser.
Note:
The Specific popup menu's contents will vary, depending on the type of template. The specific items are those slots that are standard optional additions to a template.
These slots are all the standard slots that NTK provides to you by name. This is roughly how the slots are grouped in the popup menus:
- Specific
- These are the slots specific to a particular type of template. They are slots in the proto that you might want to override in a particular template. For example, the
viewFont
slot in protoStaticText is available in the Specific menu.
- Methods
- These are standard methods associated with views.
- Attributes
- These are slots that are used with many different kinds of templates.
- The New Slot Dialog
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Last modified: 1 DEC 1996